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EU aims for more cross-border e-commerce
Gareth Morgan, IT Week , Friday 20 June 2008 at 16:31:00 EU officials want to break down European e-commerce barriers The European Union is attempting to make it easier for UK consumers to buy cheap online goods from abroad. EU Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva has promised to "redouble" efforts to...
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Cellular South Offers Fans Behind-the-Scenes Access to the 2008 Miss Mississippi Pageant
Cellular South, a leader in wireless lifestyle solutions and innovation, will use its PicSender application to upload photos of 2008 Miss Mississippi Pageant rehearsals and special events to an online album, available for public viewing through cellularsouth.com/missmsvote beginning Saturday, June 21, at midnight.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 23rd Jul 2005 16:52 UTC
Microsoft confirmed that it will deliver the beta 1 version of Longhorn Server on August 3, along with the beta 1 release Internet Explorer 7. They'll be available along with the beta 1 version of Windows Vista, the next-generation Windows formerly known as Longhorn, which Microsoft announced friday morning.
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Time schools moved out to playgrounds, dining halls, and just about anywhere...
DUBAI — Pupils of a well known educational group would soon be using laptops to learn their lessons, do assignments and class projects at home and school. This comes as part of the school's attempts to make education more exciting and inspiring.
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Human Factors International Launches 'CUA Central,' Web 2.0 Online Community for Certified Usability Analysts, During ...
Human Factors International , the global user-experience design leader, today announces its launch of "CUA Central," the official Web 2.0 online community dedicated to Certified Usability Analysts.
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Recent Original Stories
Linux may soon have a stronger open-source competitor on the desktop if FreeBSD's plans come to fruition. FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is "quickly approaching" feature parity with Linux . "Lots of work is going on to make FreeBSD more friendly on the desktop," Long said.
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Yahoo! Feeling Brain Drain
Top executives are fleeing the company.
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Startup Tilana Touts SaaS-Plus-Storage Approach
A San Diego startup says it can offer online backup services that aren't just "storage in the sky." Instead, Tilana Systems Corp. says it provides archiving and CDP as well as regular backup -- while incorporating an organization's own servers to do it.
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Government Computer News
The U.S. continues to be a supercomputing powerhouse, accounting for slightly more than half of the supercomputers on the biannual compilation of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers. Moreover, the five fastest computers on the list are supported by federal or state funds.
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Numbers come easy to these St. Margaret students
Fifty hours on the computer plus 41,271 correct answers equals Shourav Saha, the top-ranked student in Canada for World Math Day. Shourav was one of dozens of math whizzes honoured for their except...
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column on Marks
Area sportswriter Mike Monahan has had the pleasure of knowing former Arcola football coach Joe Marks since 1979 and was in his first class when Marks came to Arcola. He was also his junior varsity basketball coach and computer teacher.
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Delicious founder Joshua Schachter quits in Yahoo turmoil
Yahoo has been hit by another wave of significant departures in the past 24 hours, including Delicious founder Joshua Schachter and Brad Garlinghouse, the search division senior vice-president who wrote the infamous "peanut butter manifesto" that criticised the internet firm's strategy. Schachter's social bookmarking tool Delicious was bought by the web firm in 2005. He told the ...
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Charles Arthur: God help us if machines ever think like people
Another headline pops up: "Scientists aim to make computer that thinks like a human". And I think no, No, NO! Don't, whatever you do, do that. Even if Ray Kurzweil is the one suggesting it's coming . Why don't I like the idea of a human-like computer? Am I creating a silicon ceiling beneath which I'm trying to keep our processing friends? Actually, no. I just think that humans are a ...
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Microsoft exec Kevin Johnson criticises Google-Yahoo deal
Senior Microsoft executive Kevin Johnson has criticised Yahoo's search deal with Google as anti-competitive and bad for advertisers, at a debate featuring representatives of leading internet companies at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. Johnson, the president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, was participating in the Cannes Debate, moderated by the WPP chief ...
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Apple tech discovers Ruby security hole
An Apple technician has identified a vulnerability in the Ruby development platform, a security warning explains. Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security team is said to have discovered multiple arbitrary code vulnerabilities, which if exploited could be used to run a denial-of-service attack, or other local means of undermining a system. The vuln...
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Summer library programs not just about books anymore
The Indian Prairie Library in Darien is evolving. This summer, they have several computers open for children to use, the Book Buddy reading program is in full swing, and Nintendo Wii tournaments are drawing large crowds.
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China's Hu debuts on internet
Chinese President Hu Jintao answered just two questions in his online debut on an official website, the first being - what do you usually do on the internet?
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House passes new surveillance law
WASHINGTON - The House today easily approved a compromise bill setting new electronic surveillance rules that effectively shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits arising from the government's terrorism-era warrantless eavesdropping on phone and computer lines in this country.
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177979. Once upon a time, twenty-four grown men would play baseball together, eat together, carouse together, and brawl together. Alas, those hard-partying warriors have been replaced by GameBoy-obsessed, laptop-carrying, corporate soldiers who would rather punch a clock than a drinking buddy.
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Fire melts SuddenLink Internet connection
SuddenLink customers in Paris, Clarksville and Roxton were without data service for several hours Thursday due to a melted fiber-optic line caused by a house fire in Brookston.
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Fri 22nd Jul 2005 06:13 UTC
Apple's MacOS X is making inroads in the business world, according to a report by market research firm Jupiter Research, the report covers desktop and server OS usage in medium to large sized businesses.
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Recent Original Stories
"It was reported this week that Novell has banned all proprietary software from their Linux offerings. To me, this would be a bit like McDonalds announcing it will adopt an Atkins-only menu, selling only healthy, low-carb salads, and dropping fries, shakes, and the Big Mac as we know it.
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begin migrating to Linux .
As Novell re-introduces its Linux desktop, more open source advocates are beginning to believe that the call for widespread Linux desktop adoption is leaving the realm of zealotry and entering the mainstream.
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Sidenote Is a Universal, Unobtrusive Note Drawer [Featured Mac Download]
Mac OS X only: Donationware application Sidenote adds an unobtrusive sidebar to your Mac desktop for taking and organizing multiple rich text notes. Under normal circumstances, Sidenote takes up a...
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Federal gov’t proposes changes to copyright laws $500 fixed fine for illegal reproduction targets private Canadian ...
Changes to the Copyright Act proposed last week will mean individuals using their high-speed internet access to illegally download copyrighted material will be on the hook for a $500 fine and could be liable for other damages if caught.
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